Open edX vs Teamwork.com

Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) and Teamwork.com (World-class products that work together to streamline your business. We're hiring!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Teamwork.com (rank #237) holds a narrow lead over Open edX (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 42). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Open edX is ahead of Teamwork.com. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Teamwork.com is ahead of Open edX. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Open edX is ahead of Teamwork.com. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Teamwork.com is clearly ahead of Open edX. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Open edX is clearly ahead of Teamwork.com.

Open edX carries 10,654 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 100 repositories active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors on record. Teamwork.com shows 2,108 stars across 123 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Open edX's footprint is roughly 5.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Open edX is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Teamwork.com looks better where reach is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.